Transcript Notes: Wetlands

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Watch wetlands video carefully what is a wetland?
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 Wet
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soils
Anaerobic – lack oxygen; grey in color
 Water
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loving plants
Chordgrass
Bladderwart
Sedges, rushes, reeds
 Hydrology
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Standing water at least two weeks of the year
 Wetlands
vs.
rivers –
Slower water
 More plant life
 More shallow
 May be
seasonal/ephe
meral
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 Title:
Wetlands
 Date: March 27
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Wet soils
Water loving plants
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a wetland and label these parts:
Floating plants
Emergent plants
Standing water
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bogs and fens of the northeastern and northcentral states and Alaska
wet meadows or wet prairies in the Midwest
prairie potholes like the Katy Prairie
playa lakes of the southwest and Great
Plains
bottomland hardwood swamps of the south
tundra wetlands of Alaska.
Coastal salt marshes or tidal marshes
 Louisiana's
coastal
marshes produce
an annual
commercial fish
and shellfish
harvest that
amounted to 1.2
billion pounds
worth $244
million in 1991.
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More than half of all
U.S. adults (98
million) hunt, fish,
birdwatch or
photograph wildlife.
They spend a total of
$59.5 billion annually.
Painters and writers
continue to capture
the beauty of
wetlands on canvas
and paper, or through
cameras, and video
and sound recorders.